The Family of Chimps

The Family of Chimps
Directed byBert Haanstra
Written byBert Haanstra
Produced byBert Haanstra
Narrated byBert Haanstra
Edited byBert Haanstra
Music byJurre Haanstra
Release date
  • 1984 (1984)
Running time
55 minutes
CountryNetherlands
LanguageDutch

The Family of Chimps (Dutch: Chimps onder elkaar) is a 1984 Dutch documentary film directed by Bert Haanstra. The film is a study of the behaviour of a family of chimpanzees in Burgers' Zoo in Arnhem in the Netherlands. The documentary was inspired by the 1982 book Chimpansee politiek (Chimpanzee politics) by primatologist and ethologist Frans de Waal.